SOLSC: Parting Thoughts and Empty Spots

SOLSC: Parting Thoughts and Empty Spots - 31/31

The Slice of Life Story Challenge

Parting Thoughts and Empty Spots

Thank you, Ruth, for sharing this novel idea - poetry in the iPod! I had so much fun piecing the titles of the songs together. The words were all there, I just had to change and rearrange!

Beautiful Day - To Serenade a Rainbow

Take the time

Quiet your mind

Heart and soul

Imagine

Deep in the heart

Pictures and memories

All the small things

Little moments like that

Addicted

Stay

Always on my mind

Stuck like glue

Every day

All I wanna do

Because of you

Daytime Friends

I learned from the best

Wouldn't change a thing

I can see clearly now

Something to be proud of

Everything I said

The good stuff

Farewell and goodnight

364 days to go

Thinking about her was the same
as the hole you keep on feeling

with your tongue after you lose a tooth.

Time after time, my mind kept going
to that empty spot, the spot where I
felt like she should be.

(Thoughts from Opal about her mama
from the book Because of Winn-Dixie.)

The challenge is complete. April will be that empty spot.

Thank you for an unbelievable month!

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